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Cat Hicks

“*especially* when technology and norms shift a lot, we can get the "inflexibility of expertise" lingering for a long time; social learning challenges that across skill levels! I've been seeing this as I watch folks use learning-opportunities. More on that: …”

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Gergely Orosz: A very very interesting and recent book by Dr Cat Hicks ( @grimalkina.bsky.social ): Pyschology of Software Teams She makes a good case on how most companies/teams don’t understand how devs operate…
Gergely Orosz: Makes me realize the strategy of AI labs seems to be “rockstar-driven development” (and to their credit… it seems to be working?) They hire individuals who are very very very standout ICs, in bulk …
justingarrison.com: A very very interesting and recent book by Dr Cat Hicks ( @grimalkina.bsky.social ): Pyschology of Software Teams She makes a good case on how most companies/teams don’t understand how devs operate…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 11d ago
Cat Hicks critical slop studies Doll
Cat Hicks: Funny how having an inherent respect for human behavior can protect you from this. Not that I agree with all human behavior but that I think it generally has a point to it and "the whole world is s…
Doll: smoked haters got absolutely smoked on the facts because the entire movement against AI power is built on fruit of a poisoned tree opposing the growing and dangerous power of AI (and its purveyors)…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 13d ago
Cat Hicks critical slop studies
Cat Hicks: my face right now 😱😭 I don't know why this is making me so emotional (probably because I taught myself out of library books for the for the first seventeen years of my life)
Cat Hicks: can't tell you how many psychology books I read at the library as a teenager trying to figure out the world around me. Used to finish up my terrible little minimum wage job (since I wasn't in schoo…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 20d ago
J. Nathan Matias Cat Hicks
Cat Hicks: Nice! Bonus points for using it on a hobby project haha. I continue to use this skill all the time regardless of model improvements while I've lost a lot of other, more project-focused ones. Gives …
Cat Hicks: (if you saw it has open PRs I still need to deal with, no you didn't 🙈 I only just got my finger tendons working enough to type all day again, I'll get back to it)
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2 experts · 3 posts · 14d ago
Cat Hicks Adam L
Adam L: What if the AI doesn't want to kill us, and instead, because it was (effectively) trained on the internet, just wants to see cute animals? Seems like the best bet would be adopting a cat.
Cat Hicks: A new Pascal's Wager
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2 experts · 2 posts · 13d ago
Cat Hicks austin
Cat Hicks: Mmhm there are reasons I decline most invitations to share my work with open source communities. I'm sorry and I love my kind hearted friends who do all that. But I am a pretty good judge of cultur…
austin: amusingly enough last year or w/e I did the otel ai policy I explicitly argued against broad-based ai bans because it would make it more difficult for ESL users to communicate with project maintain…
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